Assessment and Assessment Criteria
Coursework Information Sheet
To be supplied to students when they receive the coursework assignment task
Unit Co-ordinator
Leszek Wypych
Unit Name
Personal and Professional Development
Unit Code
SHR053-6
Title of Coursework
Portfolio
% weighting of final unit grade
100% This is a pass or fail unit. The content of the Portfolio will not be graded.
Comments are formative.
Feedback details
The university policy is that you will receive promptfeedback on your work within 15 working
days of the submission date. Exceptionally where this is not achievable (for example due to
staff sickness) you will be notified as soon as possible of the revised date and the reasons
behind the change.
Submission Date
Practice Report – 12th October 2017
LinkedIn Profile (screenshot) or CV – 12th October 2017
Gateway Units Communities Notifications Dashboard Asma Al-Bulushi
Practice report with analysis
LinkedIn Profile (please ask your Line Manager/Superior for permission to submit a profile on
CV using the MBA template
Introduction
Now you have to complete the following based on this introduction;
Findings
Feedback Date
Practice Report Feedback date – 15 working days after the deadline.
Details of how to access the feedback
Comments regarding work submitted will be accessed through Turnitin
Learning
Outcomes
Identify, evaluate and demonstrate those academic skills required for your own personal and professional development and demonstrate their effective implementation in the context of the MBA
course and workplace.
Demonstrate your capacity for ongoing self assessment and personal professional development planning and an awareness of the tools and techniques available for you to achieve your
objectives.
Task Portfolio 100%
The completion of the Personal and Professional Development Portfolio is essential to demonstrate your engagement with the process of learning embedded in your MBA.
The Portfolio will be marked ‘pass’ or ‘fail’. You must pass this unit, along with all other units on the MBA to be awarded the MBA. To pass you must include all the exercises given to you on
your BREO site and in the workshops.
This portfolio will consist of:
Guidance
and format Preparation of the Portfolio
Item 1: The Practice Report
Title: “Managing Across Cultures”
You are asked to prepare a report on the above topic, Managing Across Cultures. In class we looked at the Power Point entitled “The Assignment” and
“Writing for Success”. In “The Assignment”, you have been given the Introduction:
In today’s global economy, working with people from different cultures is becoming the norm. Although this brings many rewards it also introduces challenges for both workers and management alike. All
managers know that motivating their staff is the key to a successful business. To do this, they must understand what drives their staff. But what if their staff, seem to think and behave in unexpected ways?
This can happen when people from very different cultures work together. Organisations
their staff continue to be motivated and productive.
The main issues to be discussed in this report are:
• How culture influences working styles
• Different management styles
• The importance of training managers to become inter-culturally competent
Conclusion
Reference Section
The Reading – in Reading and Resources on this Breo site :
• “Quality management : a cross-cultural perspective
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do;
You need to provide a discussion of the issues as given in the Introduction and use the reading as evidence to support your discussion
Conclude on each issue and a final conclusion.
Word count: Including the introduction 1,500 words.
Submission:
Use the Turnitin on your breo site.
Item 2: Your Profile
An important outcome of your portfolio is your personal profile. This is your ‘calling card’ and is a way of entering the international world of business.
yourself but also a way to network with people and organisations that may be useful to you or your
OR
Your CV
There is no such thing as the perfect CV. Your CV must be continually updated as you develop more skills. You need also to compose a CV that reflects the position you are applying for. We
also ask you to submit a traditional CV using the format used in your country. This is to make you aware of your ‘audience’ and to understand the expectations of different markets, both
domestic and international.
Referencing All secondary sources must be referenced using the Havard format. You should indicate the source of any primary sources (e.g. feedback from classmates)
Word Limit Circa 1500 words (+ or – 10%)
Submission An electronic copy is to be submitted to turn-it-in
Practice Report – 12th October 2017
LinkedIn Profile (screenshot) or CV – 12th October 2017
Assessment
Criteria
Assessment will be undertaken using the rubric provided
Assessment Criteria Item 1 The Practice Report
This Assessment is graded as Pass or Fail but you should prepare a paper that meets
the following guidelines
PASS
Your paper should be well structured with each theme developed carefully, drawing on
theory and applied convincingly to the realities of working across cultures.
You should prepare a report using the report format as suggested in the assessment
guidelines.
Present a well-balanced argument by discussing key aspects of the literature in question
and have fully addressed the set areas:
• How culture influences working styles
• Different management styles
• The importance of training managers to become inter-culturally
competent
It will provide broad and critically evaluative knowledge of relevant theories and concepts
showing in-depth and accurate understanding. The analysis is thorough and well
explained. Extremely well structured; the style is concise and flowing and referencing is
accurate throughout.
FAIL
Fails to consider any relevant issues or concepts; very little or no attempt to use the
published source; incoherent organization where meaning is unclear
Use of the ideas and/or words of others and of attribution that is incomplete and/or
inaccurate (can be dealt with as concern)
Unattributed use of the ideas and/or words of others (can be dealt with as concern)
Marking Criteria for Item 2 LinkedIn Profile or CV
This Assessment is graded as Pass or Fail but you should prepare a paper that meets
the following guidelines
PASS
Prepare a LinkedIn Profile and submit a screen shot
OR
Prepare a CV using the MBA template
FAIL
Failure to submit one of these documents

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